Which Android GPS app which allows Waypoints (no map needed)

[sabresailor]

Hello - I looking for a phone app for my android phone which use my phone as a very basic GPS (position, speed, course over ground) and allows for 1 or 2 waypoints to be added. No mapping functions really necessary.

I have looked at a couple which seem mega complicated!! Just looking for something which does what my 10 yr old GPS did.

Thanks

 

[jimmcgee]

GPS Essntials , looking at it right now , has the lot , and the best bit is , its free

 

[sabresailor]

I have had a look at GPS Essentials - and set up a waypoint - but how do you 'go to' that waypoint? Confused here...... ideally looking for something with less functions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[2nd_apprentice]

Point to Point

 

[HenryEDM]

MX Mariner is really good but perhaps more complicated than you're looking for. It's a chart plotter app but the main interface gives you position, cog, sog etc. I find it really useful.

 

[winsbury]

MX Mariner is really good but perhaps more complicated than you're looking for. It's a chart plotter app but the main interface gives you position, cog, sog etc. I find it really useful.

Looks great but uk charts are in-app puchases, I already have the same charts downloaded as part of memory-map , can they be reused, if not whats the cost as the website doesnt say?

 

[HenryEDM]

I don't know about using memory map charts but the in app chart sets are about £4. The set i bought covers all of Wales most of western England and eastern Ireland, so they are very good called value.

 

[gregmlucas]

What about Boatie?

I've used it for years on iPhone but I believe there is an Android version too.

It's £5 and execllent value. Will do COG, SOG, bearing and sistance to user-added waypoint. Also has weather (inc synoptiics), tides and tide flow atalass for the solent plus a bunch of reference pages. This is on the iPhone version - you might want to double check that the Android version has all the features you need.

If you only want the GPS funcions just ignore the other tabs

 

[Big-Bang1]

I've just downloaded this (MX Mariner) and the charts that cover cornwall's south coast, it looks to be pretty straght forward to use and for £10 for the programme and chart it's pretty good value. I allways carry charts for the area I'm sailing and have a chart plotter but you never know - it might come in handy.

 

[halb]

Hi try Mad Mutt Marine, it's written by one of the professors at Plymouth University, there are 2 versions 1 paid for the other free, both good and simple to use, I have it on Android devices don't know if it is on Apple.
Jon